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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-30
Ibry Goods.

fxom charging up the chief receipts OF cotton
goods the demand was quiet. The tone of the
market was indicated by advanced prices as toll
OGs:Am0ry Pounds Sterling and S6-inoh Lang.
don sc. B." and 49," alexandria and Will
Evansville 56-inch bleached each &c higher.
Eachcs broyp sheetipgsa1d drills &c higher for
AL grades.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
A Waldo County Veteran In the West.

In sending us the following private letter from
Lieut.. Rufus Roberts, Prof. l.. &. Batcman writes
from East Machias: ale was my Lieut.. in Co. ID.
18th Maine Volunteers, and cannot forget and
shall never cease to he grateful for his many acts
of Kindness to me when l. mere child, was one
of his soldiers. lie is 4 brave, noble and open
hearted fellow" Lieut.. Robert formerly lived in
Brooks and has relatives in stockton and other
towns of Waldo county:
My DEAR BATEMAN: A happy Christmas to you
and yours Would that could have the same. !
am doing nothing, and have not made Il dollar
since last April. The Democratic city council
threw me out of my position as surveyor of weights
and measures and put an old broken down saloon
keeper in my place. That is the love the Dem
ocrats have for an old soldier | think will
have a different Council next November. We have
soldiers home in this state, and it is located in
this city. Minneapolis gave fifty acres Of land,
and 1ifty-ive thousand dollars to the same.
How is that for il Home? think Congress should
give every Old soldier pension Of so per month.
That Is where the surplus money ought to so-to
the Old soldiers. The soldier doesn't stand half
the show iii the Democratic party that drunken
saloon keeper does. Our Democratic Council put
i'll five saloon keepers i'll the place of five of us old
soldiers. am now doing nothing and it doesn't
pay very we'll All have to do is to take in my
wool and coal, and take of my stock-Mollv
and her two colts. That keeps me from rusing.
hope something will turn up in the spring; that
will get something TO do to make living, or that
Congress will pass bill giving me Il pension. We
have got to live some way. We are having one of
the finest winters that known in the West.
Five inches of snow, weather warm, and times
very good. | see some of the Maine people ont
here every now and then. | saw Marshal Davis
son, Frank, yesterday. There are Il few of the old
l4th Reg't boys here also-but only Il few. | know
of only two besides myself. Lieut.. |. NJ. Under
wood and Chas. T.. Fuller. Lieut. Henry Wiley
was here for some years; but have rot seen him
for over four years. ] expect you see lots of the
boys of the old l4th, do you not; | would be only
too glad to see all of them more don't know
much that is going in Maine now | have not
seen Maine paper sircc the journal stopped,
last October. Am in hopes to see YOU and YOUR
family ont here scme time. | would like to go
down to Maine once more and visit my oil home,
and see OF" friends. have been out here now -
years, and it is long time. Batcman, | would
Ike to hear from You again. Give my respects
and best wishes to your family.
Yours truly, RUFUS Roberts,
500 It'll Ave-, No East, Minneapolis, MINI.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
The Presidents Fallacies.

The Presidents organs profess good deal of
enthusiasm over his message, but we do not OF
serve that any of them have made an attempt to
explain or defend his statement that These
who buy imports pay the duty charged thereon
to the public treasury, but the glca. majority of
our citizens, who buy domestic articles of the
same class. pay a sum at least approximately
equal to this duty to the home manufacturer"
The fallacy, on which the President reasoning
is founded. that the consumer pays the whole OF
the tariff and that the buyer of American goods
competing with foreign pays for them price
which is enhanced by nearly or quite the full
amount of the duty on similar foreign goods.
was abandoned long ago by most advocates OF
free trade. The Presidents unhe>itatng aiol
ton of this fallacy strengthens Judge DaNi>'s
conjecture that he took his Ideas from a speech
delivered in the Polk campaign. There is Il
mu>ty flavor to them.
a few examples may be cited to show the
absurdiy of the Presidents argument. There
is a duty on cotton prints of . cents yard.
Yet domestic prin>-ti by q print cloths
averaged in lSS5 312 cents q yard. and in 1856
tclN anu Nlli!titIt LOT NE lSl
four years averaged cents. Cilloroforn of
English manufacture used to COS; - - pound.
Congress imposed Il duty of 81 "A pound. and the
price. if Mr.. Cleveland is correct. should haze
risen promptly TO s. %. Instead of thS.
American manufac turc WAS stimulated and
chloroform now brings % cents. Steel rails
are worth about 80 per ton. The duty on
them is S1l. J. Mr.. Cleveland is right. they
should cost only $ljif there were DO duty. That
is less than the price of scrap ron. leal sells
At - u per IA" pounds duty i -. Without
duty. lead should SELL on this theory at - -,
1t really brings - II alroai. so. tcnpcnny
nails sell nj s. y per keg: the dnty i Il H.. and
the roper price. if there were no duty. Should
he 81 10. which again i about the price of scrap
iron. We like to treat the President with rc-
>iicct, but when he undertakes the function of
schooimi>tcr and seeks to instruct the people in
tine elementary principles of political ecoHomy
he must expect correction if hu Incorporates
such misleading tailacic> III hi> teachings.
Boston journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
The Issues for 1893.

1t is c>ilent that President Cleveland has
unwittingly done the country Il service with
his free trade message. Indeed. this ur-
American document performs the same part
Il the ''frightfu example" at temperance
meetings. 1t is an object lesson for instructing
the people what 10 avoid. Cleveland has also
conferred favor upon the Republican party.
He has landed the Democrats in the hole
about which they have been wriggling for
some wears past. They We're for free trade
bat did not have the courage of their convc-
tons. Free trade j. one of their traditions
and they have chung to it although the Solid
south has III Il large degree outyrown the fall
lacie> by which this issue is maintained at the
present time. With free trade blaZoned Oh its
banners the Democracy will have furnished all
needfth proof that it has learned nothing from
experience, and is wholly unfit to be entrusted
with the de>tnieS of the American people.
In fact. taking the President as the mouth
piece Of his pary-and a> the question of his
denomination i virtually settled this is iustifi-
able-the Democratic party has become merely
the mouihpiece of the Golden Clu;, of England
and has e>pou>cd the cause of the importers
and agents of foreign manufacturers :t> against
til" interests of the tong millions of Amcri-
ca. Free trade, free ships and free rum are its
watrhword>. and all are utterly opposed 10 the
commercial supremacy. business interests and
the homes Of this country. Bankruptcy and
moral degradation are the natural outcome of
this hydra-hcadcd Democratic policy. As a
side issue it per>ecutes and insults the old sol
dier> who saved the country it sought 10 ,le>-
troy. Wherever it obtains foot,old the vet
eran> are turned out of oilirc and widow and
orphans arc not only refused tho bounty Il
grateful countr, would gladly le>tow on them
hut are in>ultcd over the signature of the
Democratic President.
The issues the Democracy have thus ma,r
for The campaign of ls>> Will he gladly met bv
The tcpuhilcan party-thc party which i and
always la. IT, the party of the people, the
friend of the oppressed and the champion Of
Industry and morait.. There ought 10 he no
doubt IL to The result If >nch contest.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
Obituary..

Hon. Franklin Treat of the Rhode Island State
Senate from Warwick, who died at his home Dee.
list, came of an influential Maine family. He was
born in Frankfort, Me, June ,, 1882, and was eu
Gated III the public schools. In early life he was
engaged in shipbuihIing, in which lie anlassed IL
fortune, most of which was afterwards swept
away. lie went to Centreville, II. L., in 1873, and
went into the dry goods ami grocery trade in
which he was very successful. lie had taken an
active part in Maine politics as Il member OF the
Democratic party and he represented the towns of
Frankfort and Wintcrport in the Legislature in
1865 and 1872 filling important Offices on various
life, on his removal to Rhode Island, he took an
active interest in matters pertaining to public af-
fairs, and he was welcomed by the Democratic
party as an able ally. lie was elected a State
senator 1875 1850, 1851 and 1856, and at the time OF
his death, besides other Offices, he held the posi-
ton OF chairman of the finance committee Of the
Senate. Mr.. Treat, although a life long Democrat,
was an earnest supporter of Abraham Lincoln,
and cast his vote for him. He was the Democratic
candidate for congressional honors in the western
district in 1883. Judge Treat was a strong atlvo-
cate of more liberal constitution. He leaves a
widow and one child. Boston Herald, Dee. I'D
Mr.. George n Ewel one of the proprietors of
the Eagle House, lIaverhll, Mass died last Thurs
day. He was born in Prospect, Me-, in 1917 and
formerly, for 81 years. proprietor of hotel in
Frankfort, Me-, afterwards keeping an inn in La
coma, n. IL. lie leaves a widow and three chill
tlren.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
Mt. Desert Correspondence.

5. W. lIARBoR, Dec. Goth. $. ". Newman and
James Fernald have gone to the South West val
ley on Il deer hunt At this writing We have not
heard from the party and their luck. Osmond
Cousins fired at two deer last Friday, which came
out in the pasture, but only succeeded in getting
one. They seem to be very tame in this vicinity
as the same day J. l.. Stanley had one pcnned up
in pasture near by his house but did get him.
Myron King while riding out last Sunday was
thrown from his carriage when abreast Of Centen-
NAL Hall. His head struck ona sharp rock, cutting
his badly that several stitches were ncces-
sary. lie also received general shaking up. The
horse ran towards home and in turning sharp
corner upset the buggy, causing complete
wreck.
AS yet we have had only about an inch of snow
and no one has yenturcd out with sleigh. The
wheeling is excellent.
Christmas was generally observed in this vicini-
ty by Christmas trees on Friday and Saturday the
23d and oath.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

Fifteen Detroit assemblies have withdrawn
from the knights of Labor.
The steamer IIOndo with Lieutenant Peavv
and party has arrived at Nicaragua.
The earthquake sufferers at Barispe. Mexico,
are reported to be suffering for want of shelter
MOrey Hale Burton of New York, noted in
literary and scientific research, is dead, aged Co.
King Kaakaua has created trouble again in
the Sandwich Islands by vetoing bills passed by
the legislature.
Seamen who boarded the abandoned schooner
ID. and Il. Kelley report that they found the
body of captain on board and indications of
murder. The three members of the KeIy's
crew who reached New York will be arrested.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

Perhaps the ''activc temperance worker in
Waldo county" belongs to the class Of profess
siOnal temperance hypOcritcs who do not be-
lieve in honest temperance effort. kcnnebec
Democrat.
You are wrong Bro. Bunker. The person
referred to is a practical consistent, active
and untiring temperance worker, and prac.
tices what he breaches.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
An Anomaly That Is Profitable TO a Few.

A Prohibition party in the State of Maine is
strange anomaly. The Maine Republicans are
explicitly pledged to enforcement OF the present
anti liquor law they to the Of protec-
ton of our industries, and the late lamented Gov
energetic efforts 10 close the illegal saloons. Out
of respect to his memory the third party men this
year at least ought to cease their senselcss oppos
ton to their Republican brethren, which helps no
body bnt the common enemy. tl3oston Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
The Lesson of o Life.

The life of man like the late Gov. Bodwcll of
Maine is standing rebukc to much of the danger
GUS economic hcresies, and unreasonable dscon
tent among labOring men so popular now IA days
Industry, temperance and fair ability will in time
put any man into comfortable circumstances
New England Farmer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

We are glad to know that a move has been
made to prevent the giving of straw bail in
liquor cases. In recent case one of the pro-
posed bondsmen admitted that he had no prop
erty, and he is himself under bonds for vioat-
ing the liquor laws. Those engaged in this
method of shielding criminals should be, and
will be, exposed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
Newspaper Notes.

We publish this week the prospectus for lSSs of
the Daily Evening Express Of Portland, a stalwart
Republican paper, and excellent newspaper.
The policy it advocates is set forth in the pros
pcc,us, and we can testify that it lives up to its
professions. Three dollars year is very cheap
for such Il daily paper.
The Maine Press Association will hold its twenty
fifth annual meeting in Portland on Wednesday
and Thursday, January 18th, and 18th, ISIS, com
mencing at seven o'clock on Wednesday evening.
The Prchle House will be the headquarters of the
Association and the charge is to be but $50 per
day to the members and their families. Those
who intend being present should inform the Cor
responding Secretary George III. Watkins, of Port
land, within week. Mr.. Henry a. >horey, of
Bridgton, will be the essayist, and Mrs. Anna
Sargent Hunt OF Augusta, the poet. I'm interest
ing mecingis anticipated.
Some of the ''boys' of the Maine press have
distinguished themselves by issuing Christmas
supplements, and among the more notable NAV he
mentioned the Fairfield Journal, Somerset Report
en- Bddeford journal, Rocklanl Courier Gazette
and Lincoln County News. The Richmond Bee
did not issue supplement but filed its first page
with original matter and in other respects had an
unusually good number Of an always bright and
very readable paper. Tie Courier Gazette had Il
page of Fuller's fun. which everybody must have
enjoyed. The Fairfield journal issued an edition
of twelve pages, in which comments upon the pa
per made an interesting feature. We should be
glad to notice further tile enterprise and ability
displayed by our esteemed contemporaries but
will only add that these Christmas issues are
proof of the continued advancement we trust
with accompanying prospcrty,-of the Maine
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

Edward Burgess, the designer of the v:tori-
Gus May1ower, Puritan and Volunteer, had
$10,102 check placed in his Christmas stocking,
contributed by his New York admirers. Wish
1t had been multiplied by ten.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

Hon. Daniel Manning, eX-Sccretary of the
Ti;asury, died on Saturday afternoon at his
home in Albany. lie had been failing in health
IN President Clereland's Cabinet and the bad
sanitary condition of the Treasury Department
reduced him from a strong man to a physical
wreck. lie resigned for rest and recuperation,
but only postponed for IA time the inevitable.
Mr.. Manning's abilities and industry won for
him the respect of all, and he is commonly re-
garded as the best man among CIcveands
advisers.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
Compliments Of the Season from Journal Read.


An old newspaper man writes 81 hope your
excellent Mexican letters are appreciated; ditto
the 18th Maine "reminiscences, and the story of the
Belfast hunters i'll Washington county. You seem
fortunate in your contributors
Waldo county reader says: Eve have Il great
many good things in this world, and one of those
good things is the Republican journal. When we
wish to know what is going on around lis have
but to take the Journal and in it we find items
from all the towns in our section, as well as news
from all the Statcs.''
Massachusetts reader says 81 look forward
every week to the journal and it is generally read
through before ! am done breakfast First come
the pithy editorials, which nothing if not radi-
cal and aggressive; then the general news and the
interesting letters. 1t is certainly the cleanest and
neatest of papers and the Typography is nearly
perfect Keep on and wage perpetual
warfare against rum, and against the men who
refuse justice to the old soldiers; also against the
local wrongs which come under your notice.
You'll triumph in the end. The pen is mighticr
than the sword, to-day.
Ever the truth comes uppermost
And ever is Justice DONE. -
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
It is The Worst Thief In Maine.

We don't like to accuse our exchanges of rob-
berry, but we note that the Lewiston journal was
prompt TO gODblc up our list of Maine 80 horses
without giving credit. 1t appeared promptly in
that paper after last issue. Maine Horse
Breeders Monthly.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

The Presidents statements that only a very
small number of farmers receive any benefit
from the duty on raw woodland that these I'M
fortunates themselves are Immediately required
to pay out all the bounty they receive in the
enormously enhanced cost of the manufactured
wooden goods they buy. reminds the Bridge
port, ct. Standard of the argument put by the
free-trader at the public meeting. where sing
ling out "horney-handed son of toll for the
reception of his shaft, he said: '.Why. nv
man, the very shirt your back cost four
cents per yard more Oh account of the robbery
of protection:' ''lIow can that be-" replied
the laborer, when the cloth only cost three
cents yard any way The farmers know
that American wooden goods are cheaper to-
day than foreign wooden goods ever were in
the good old times" and better, and they are
not taken in by free trade sophistry.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
Acknowledgements.

We are indebted to Senator Hale for the Con-
gressional Record and to Representative Miliken
for Il whcebarrow load of public document, and :,
copy of the Congressional Directory Il most use.
full publication.
Hon. Fred Atwood, of Wintcrport, sends US,
with his compliments and wishes for a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year" very pretty
card. The journal wishes the same to its old
friend Atwood.
The Metropolitan, literary monthly of large
circulation and low price, published in New York
ut ~ broadway, has sent us Il picture, 10 by "A
inches, entitled "The Metropolitan Portrait Gal.
lery,' containing the portraits Of one hundred
eminent Americans, drawn with remarkable iidel.
ity to the original subjects. The likeness in each
case is most striking, and the entire work cXecut
ed in the best style Of the cngravers art
\ most novel, conv enient and valuable business
calendar for lssS is the Columbia Bicvcle Calendar
and stand just received from the Pope Mfg. Co..
of Boston, Mass. In this calendar a new dcpar-
turc has been made, decidedly unique and differ
cnt from amy previous attempt in calendar con
structlon The calendar proper is in the form of Il
pad, containing 56j leaves, for each day in the
year. to be torn on daily. The leaves are 81 by
~ inches, and portion of each leaf is left blank
for memoranda, so arranged that the memorandum
blank for any coming day can be turned to imme.
diately at any time. The pad rests upon IL Dor.
table stand. and when placed upon the desk or
writing the entire surface of the date leaf is
brought directly, and left constantly before the
eye, furnishing date and memoranda, impossible
to he overlooked
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

}. y. llonan, ESD, of Augusta. in Il letter
10 the kcnnebcc journal. .@est> the erection
Of monument to Governor hodWtll. Mr.
Holman well says: ''livinY, h. VS. :; benefit
and 4 blessing to The community, and DYING
has left Il priceless legacy Of character all.
conduct. which cannot be LOST upon hose W ho
come after him. To perpctualc tht micmory Of
such a magistrate AMI man ought - he the
welcome duty and privilege cf The STATE. in
whose service he died" We also heartily
agree with Mr.. llom;.n when he SAYS: That
such Il monument or statue should be- wrought
out of the imperi>lablc granite OF our own
Mainc hills. with which 80 much o. hi, life
work Wa, identified. and 50 strongly typical of
his own solid and ndumitallc character. need
lot be urged. There is on the Capital croun,l>
a granite monument. erected by the state to
Governor Enorh Lincoln. the first Maine Gov
crnDr who died III office.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

The bodies of a number of persons have been
found in Il house recently occupied by man
named Kelly, near Oak City, Kansas. They
were all murdered. Kelly has fled.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

The tale> Of suffering received from Kansas.
although somewhat toned down by later re-
port,. are not likely to encourage emigration
from New England, and will no doubt tend TO
check the flow of Eastern capital iii that ire,-
ton. Better the occasional snow drift, of
Maine than the billiards Of treeleS> Kansas.
where corn il used for fuel and a short crop
the past season has caused many deaths 9v
freezing. Two men left Ashland an hour be
fore the storm began and their bodies were
found next day on the prairie>. Their team
shared the same fate. 4 Wichita despatch
says further: "A sod house WAS entered and
The entire family OF five. named X an>:,s, were
frozen >ttl. some We're sitting upright On
stools and the mother was lead in bed There
was no fuel. The re>clIing party buried the
bodies. Bruce {. Freddy, real estate agent. Of
Ashland. WAS out in the country ookin" at n
claim. and was found dead half Il mile from
the limits of the town. This is specimen of
one days dispatches. in which the death roll
footed up sixty. Maine is good enough for Us.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29

The suffering in Kansas during the recent
severe weather is declared not to have been gen.
eral,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
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Transfers In Real Estate.

The following are the transfers in real estate in
Wald" county for the week ending Dec. 18th: Id,
y. Bowler Liberty, to Benz. W. Black, Lowell
FhcneZcr Bart Nlntcrpolt, to John W. Garlic
ton. same town. John Carver, LinconvlIe to
Charles +. Carver, same town. Charles F. Carver
Lincolnvilc, to John $. Rossiter, \orthport Cam
den Savings Bank, to Harry Crehorc, Lincolnvillc
George W. Crockett, Winterpory, to George l..
Gilman, same town. }. w. and Mary Cross Nor
rill, to John +. Cross, same town. Martha J
Downcs, Monroe to Frank H. Bowtcn, same town
Henry q. Dodge, Belfast, to 4. H. Durham 4 al
same town. j. ii. Frye, Montville, to Richard c.
Adams, Morrill,. Alice A. Grant X ais, Islesboro
to Orlando Moody, same town. Ahnira Gilkev
Belfast, to Frank \. Gilkey. same town. Daniel
l!araden, Belfast, ASST ncc deed to John NJ Fletch
er, same town. Lucinda f. Hartman, stockton
To Eulaiia Patterson, same town. Eliza .Jcflerds
4 ais, Monroe, to Horace +. Robinson, Boston
VIM. +. Keller, Islesboro, to Charles g. Keller
same town. j. Il. MearS, uN. Morrill,, to Isaac
III. Jackson, Knox. Amanda J. Mulgett, Sears
Maclcan, Halifax, \. s., to Charles +. Robinson
Wintcrport. Edmund j. Murcl, Bangor to Charles
+. Robinson, Wiltcrport. Emma D. Miller, Bel
fast, to Joseph l.. Witherly, Belfast. +. c. Pen
Edwin {. Phillips, Lowell, TO VIM. T.. Phillips
\orthport. Alden ID. Wihcrly, Belfast to JOSEPH,
l.. Withcrly, same town.